Chapter 169: The Mirror Immortal's Defense Broken

"Leader Xia Hong, these three thousand-plus of us have never worshipped the Mirror Immortal. The other nine thousand-plus people in the encampment have already been incited to commit suicide by it. It should be preparing some kind of ritual, be careful!"

Hearing Director Yu Wen Tao's voice, Xia Hong's pupils shrank violently.

In fact, he had been at the Mirror Immortal encampment for a while. Because the internal situation was unclear, in order to ensure safety, he first made some other preparations, which delayed some time.

In just this short while, over nine thousand people had all been incited to commit suicide!

Of course, shock was shock, but to Director Yu Wen Tao's reminder, Xia Hong immediately responded, saying gratefully in a deep voice: "Thank you, Brother Director Yu Wen. You take these three thousand-plus people and flee first, leave this strange monster to me!"

Hearing this, a look of joy immediately appeared on Director Yu Wen Tao's face.

The first sentence he said just now indicated that these three thousand-plus people were all fine; he was just worried that Xia Hong and the others would mistakenly think they were also related to the strange monster and would block them from fleeing.

Xia Hong clearly understood his meaning and directly told them to leave.

The three thousand-plus people had already sobered up, and the ones at the very front had already run out of the passage like headless flies. Director Yu Wen Tao looked up at the sky, then looked at the Does Does Da Xia crowd on the other side, and immediately began to deploy.

"Uncle Hong, you take these people and run to the outskirts of the arrow bamboo forest first, find a place to hide, don't enter the bamboo forest, and don't go too far; the rest of you stay with me and help the people of Does Does Da Xia."

There were forty-one people surrounding him at the moment, all with Earth-Digging Realm cultivation. Among them, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan had cultivation levels even higher than his; they were all old subordinates of his father, Director Yu Wen Hu.

"Tao, we were all almost...... just now. Relying on this few people from Does Does Da Xia, can they deal with He Yuanhun? Why don't we all flee together!"

Hong Guang originally wanted to turn and leave, but turned to look at the Does Does Da Xia crowd, his brows furrowed slightly, and he immediately reminded Director Yu Wen Tao.

Although the four people, Hong Tian, Meng Yi, and the others, did not speak, they looked at the Does Does Da Xia crowd and also furrowed their brows, clearly agreeing with Hong Guang's proposal.

There were sixty-seven people in total on the Does Does Da Xia side. Except for Xia Hong's strength which they couldn't see through, the others hadn't even reached the limit of the Earth-Digging Realm.

Just now, their three thousand-plus people were all almost incited to commit suicide by He Yuanhun. With so few people coming from Does Does Da Xia, how could they fight He Yuanhun?

Director Yu Wen Tao hesitated for only a moment upon hearing this, then immediately spoke in a deep voice:

"It's about to be dawn. With three thousand-plus people, we can't run far at all. Besides, if He Yuanhun wins, we will all be dead anyway. We must stay here and help them.

Have you forgotten who forced He Yuanhun to this step? Don't underestimate the people of Does Does Da Xia. Daring to chase after him proves they must have certainty. Listen to me, don't waste time. Uncle Hong, you hurry, the people in front are almost scattered."

Everyone was instantly awakened by Director Yu Wen Tao's words, their expressions changing.

"Alright, I'll go right now!"

After Hong Guang spoke, he was the first to turn and rush toward the front of the crowd.

The others who had reacted also followed behind Director Yu Wen Tao, moving toward the position where the Does Does Da Xia group was located.

"This is Condensing Fire Oil. Smear it on your weapons; it can hurt strange monsters."

Director Yu Wen Tao, who had just gathered over, hadn't even opened his mouth to speak when Xia Chuan, who was shooting arrows, threw him a leather bag.

Opening the leather bag and seeing the black oil blocks the size of a fist inside, realizing that this might be the divine object Does Does Da Xia used to deal with strange monsters, Director Yu Wen Tao's pupils shrank slightly, and he immediately distributed them to the people around him.

With the Does Does Da Xia people setting the example, Director Yu Wen Tao's group also smeared it on their respective weapons and iron arrows. After smearing, they immediately followed Xia Chuan and the others, shooting arrows one after another at the ancient mirror in the sky.

Xia Chuan, who was in the front, turned to look at Director Yu Wen Tao, a hint of appreciation appearing in his eyes.

Big Brother was right, he is indeed a smart person!

He had also heard Director Yu Wen Tao's words just now.

"Over nine thousand people, all died by the bamboo building?"

At the very front of the crowd, Xia Hong shot half a quiver of arrows, then turned to look at Director Yu Wen Tao and asked.

Director Yu Wen Tao hurriedly nodded in response: "The vast majority are, a small part should have committed suicide before reaching the bamboo building......"

After answering, he immediately realized why Xia Hong asked this, and hurriedly continued: "He Yuanhun just tried to incite our three thousand-plus people to continue committing suicide. He should still be in a severely injured state. No matter what those nine thousand-plus people were used for, they shouldn't have recovered so quickly!"

Smart people communicate efficiently.

Xia Hong's expression shifted, and he immediately ordered the group:

"Follow me in, keep half a quiver of arrows, be careful!"

Xia Chuan and the others nodded upon hearing this, immediately slung their iron bows behind their backs, drew the broadswords at their waists, followed behind Xia Hong, and entered the Mirror Immortal encampment from the passage.

"Uh...... ah......"

Above the bamboo building, the fire on the two mirrors was still burning, and rolling black smoke continuously overflowed from below, shrouding the entire basin.

Even though Xia Hong and the others had stopped shooting arrows, He Yuanhun's wailing and screaming never stopped, continuing all the while.

"Condensing Fire Oil burns upon touching strange monsters. Those two mirrors should be the main body of that so-called Mirror Immortal. That is to say, He Yuanhun is being controlled!"

Xia Hong, who was the first to rush into the encampment, looked up at the two eerie mirrors above the bamboo building. A glimmer of light flashed in his pupils, and he suddenly turned his body and swung his ceremonial sword violently.

Clang......

An iron arrow was slashed to the ground by Xia Hong. From the several wooden houses nearby, hundreds of people instantly rushed out.

They all held broadswords, their faces expressionless. Although they looked like marionettes, their movements were not slow at all, and they quickly rushed in front of Xia Hong and the others.

Swoosh...... swoosh...... swoosh......

It wasn't just the hundred-plus people who rushed out; in the shadows of the upper floors of the wooden houses, hundreds of silvery pupils lit up again. Following that, thousands of iron arrows were suddenly shot at them.

"Find cover, they are all Earth-Digging Realm strength!"

Xia Hong slashed down the first iron arrow, quickly drew his sword to meet the two people in the lead, and swung his ceremonial sword violently. Although he cleanly slashed off the heads of the two people, realizing that the basic strength of these people was all over ten thousand jin, his expression changed violently, and he quickly opened his mouth to remind Xia Chuan and the others behind him.

"They were all ordinary people in the encampment before, they all committed suicide just now, this is being resurrected and controlled by He Yuanhun."

Director Yu Wen Tao's reminder from behind was somewhat redundant. Noticing the number of people in the wooden houses, Xia Hong immediately had the answer in his heart.

The Mirror Immortal encampment had a total of three hundred-plus Earth-Digging Realm experts before. At the moment, there were at least five or six hundred people in the wooden houses on the left and right rows, which was clearly not right.

"Follow me!"

Xia Hong's body was like lightning. As his ceremonial sword flew, it brought out streaks of cold light, not only slashing down dozens of arrows but also killing the ten-plus people blocking his eyes.

The long sword occasionally grazed the eye area of those people, immediately igniting the opponent's head, exactly the same as before in the valley.

Breaking through the obstruction of the human wall in front, Xia Hong led the crowd and drilled directly into a wooden house on the left.

Whoosh......

The moment he kicked open the door, dozens of sword lights came toward his face.

Xia Hong, who had been prepared, used a clever force to kick the door panel toward the front.

If it were normal force, Xia Hong's kick would definitely have penetrated the wooden door. Using clever force was different; the wooden door flew backward as a whole, directly slamming dozens of people behind it against the wall of the house.

Bang......

With a loud boom, a large piece of the wall was directly knocked down.

The people in the front row who were directly hit by the wooden door were instantly torn apart, unable to piece together a complete body; even those who were only affected by the aftermath had blood sprayed all over the ground, falling to the ground with no ability to act at all.

"This......"

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the other Earth-Digging Realm experts of Does Does Da Xia had already witnessed Xia Hong's strength in the valley, so seeing this scene naturally wouldn't be surprised;

But Director Yu Wen Tao, Hong Guang, and the forty Earth-Digging Realm experts beside him were different. Everyone couldn't help but gasp, and the look in their eyes when looking at Xia Hong was full of horror and shock.

Many of them had seen Xia Hong's previous battle with Director Yu Wen Hu.

At that time, although Xia Hong borrowed his boldness and almost made Director Yu Wen Hu suffer a loss, at most, it could only be said that the strength of the two was evenly matched.

But the scene before their eyes at this moment was different.

Over a hundred people charging the formation, Xia Hong unhurriedly opened a gap, not to mention that; kicking the door panel to fly, slamming dozens of Earth-Digging Realm experts behind it to fly and cause death and disability, this was not just something that could be done by high basic strength.

That was just a wooden door after all. Not to mention anything else, even a Woodcutting Realm expert holding a broadsword could directly break it, let alone the dozens of people behind the wooden door just now were all Earth-Digging Realm experts.

"Flawless Qi Skin, Tendon and Bone Control Force, this is the ability that only appears after the Skin-Membrane is complete and breaks through to the Cold-Resisting Grade. It's not strange to break through, but, being able to defeat He Yuanhun, who possesses Three-Mane Strength, as soon as he breaks through, could this Xia Hong be a Super-Grade Battle Body?"

Director Yu Wen Tao's pupils condensed. Remembering what his father had said before, that once a Super-Grade Battle Body breaks through, the basic strength will skyrocket to at least three manes, looking at Xia Hong, his eyes were instantly full of envy.

Not just him, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and the five older people, noticing that when Xia Hong exerted force, there was not the slightest movement in his whole body's aura and muscles, immediately understood something, and their expressions became exactly the same as Director Yu Wen Tao's.

"Super-Grade Battle Body, it is extremely rare even in a village-level encampment. This tiny Red Wood Ridge can actually produce one, it's simply inconceivable!"

"Go upstairs!"

What Director Yu Wen Tao and the others were thinking, Xia Hong naturally didn't know.

In just this short while, he had already led Xia Chuan and the others to clear the entire wooden house, and the hundred-plus Earth-Digging Realm experts hiding inside were all slaughtered.

Leading the crowd to the top floor of the wooden house, looking at people continuously rushing toward this side from all directions, everyone's expressions condensed slightly.

"Big Brother, look at the bamboo building side......"

Xia Chuan seemed to have discovered something more important. Prompted by him, everyone turned to look over. At this look, their scalps instantly went numb.

Although this wooden house was on the outermost edge of the encampment, the distance from the bamboo building was only two or three hundred meters, barely able to see the situation over there clearly.

The fire of the two mirrors above the bamboo building was still there.

Even He Yuanhun's screaming had never stopped.

But what also hadn't stopped were the two mirrors, emitting light.

The mirror on the right, as if someone was deliberately controlling it, emitted a black dark light that mapped onto the bodies of the corpses on the ground one after another.

By the bamboo building, the corpses that had just been lying on the ground motionless, once hit by the dark light, immediately twitched, and then, as if they had come alive, stood up directly from the ground and turned to look toward the wooden house where Xia Hong and the others were located.

"Are these people, how they live!"

Xia Hong's heart trembled slightly. These were all Earth-Digging Realm experts.

If over nine thousand people were all resurrected, then no matter how strong he was, he estimated that he would have to fold here today.

"Big Brother, Condensing Fire Oil can only suppress, it seems not enough to kill. More and more resurrected people, can't drag it out anymore. You go over first, we'll hold it here!"

Seeing more and more resurrected people under the bamboo building, Director Yu Wen Tao was just about to persuade Xia Hong to retreat first, but before he could speak, Xia Chuan on the side spoke first.

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Director Yu Wen Tao's expression jolted, and he turned to look at Xia Hong.

This Xia Hong, what other means did he hide?

"Alright!"

Xia Hong didn't talk nonsense either. Turning to look at the bamboo building position, his pupils condensed slightly, he jumped directly from the window of the wooden house and rushed straight toward the bamboo building.

"Ah......"

I don't know if he noticed Xia Hong rushing toward him, but He Yuanhun's screaming became louder. At the same time, those resurrected people also surrounded Xia Hong from all directions.

Clearly, they were all stopping him from continuing to rush toward the bamboo building.

Xia Hong's eyes were slightly cold. He took dozens of pieces of Condensing Fire Oil from his bosom and threw them violently toward the front, and his ceremonial sword quickly sped through them.

Bang......

His figure was like electricity. While rushing toward the bamboo building, his ceremonial sword quickly cut and liquefied the Condensing Fire Oil in front, bringing out a black oil mist along the way.

Ah......

After the Condensing Fire Oil was atomized, it was not so simple for those strange monsters blocking him to resist. They didn't possess much sense at the moment. Many people's silvery-white pupils were splashed by the oil mist, and fire immediately erupted on their heads.

Those not splashed by the oil mist also couldn't resist Xia Hong's ceremonial sword at all.

Shoo......

Xia Hong's terrifying strength combined with extreme speed, the blade flew horizontally along the way, without the slightest pause. With a burst of people turning over and horses falling, he directly killed a bloody path in the crowd of thousands, straight to the bamboo building.

In an instant, the distance between him and the bamboo building was less than a hundred meters. Xia Hong, who had entered the hundred-meter range, looked back at the wooden house where Xia Chuan and the others were entrenched, and found that more and more strange monsters had rushed over, his pupils condensing slightly.

"Indeed can't drag it out!"

Xia Hong turned his head again to look at the two mirrors above the bamboo building, his heart moved.

A circular iron-smelting furnace with a diameter of more than one meter suddenly appeared before his eyes.

The moment the furnace appeared, the two mirrors in the sky seemed to have sensed something, and the light stagnated violently.

Although they were two mirrors, Xia Hong could clearly perceive the emotion of fear from them, and a coldness appeared on his face.

Sizzle......

The iron-smelting furnace made two slight sounds, and flames slowly ignited from within.

Boom......

The moment the flames in the iron-smelting furnace ignited, the flames under the two mirrors also rose several times higher, and He Yuanhun's screaming also became violent again.

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At the same time, those people who had just been resurrected seemed to have been drained of their strength, instantly stalling for a few seconds. Silvery-white pupils began to leak liquid, and painful expressions gradually appeared on their faces.

"Ah...... ah...... ah......"

He Yuanhun's painful voice came from the mirror in mid-air. Seeing the light beam on the right side of the mirror shining on the top floor of the bamboo building, Xia Hong didn't have any hesitation this time, directly leaned over and rushed to the side of the bamboo building, jumped up, jumped onto the third floor, and rushed into the inner room.

Shoo......

The moment he approached the bamboo building, the snow-white bamboo on the outer wall seemed to have come alive, shaking off the snowflakes covered on it, revealing a layer of sharp thorns.

Those sharp thorns were about ten-plus centimeters, dense and sharp, and they shot toward all directions without distinction. Xia Hong, who was about to rush into the inner room, was naturally the first to bear the brunt, almost being covered by the sharp thorns.

The moment the sharp thorns shot over, Xia Hong's expression changed slightly. He slashed down several sharp thorns with his ceremonial sword, felt that their impact force didn't even reach ten thousand jin, directly put down the ceremonial sword and ignored it, and continued to rush into the inner room.

Clang...... clang...... clang......

The dense sharp thorns shot onto Xia Hong's body, as if they had hit a copper wall and an iron wall, not even leaving a white dot on his skin, and directly fell to the ground.

Xia Hong, who had already rushed into the inner room, finally saw He Yuanhun.

He was lying on the ground, covering his eyes with both hands and letting out painful roars. Seeing Xia Hong come in, he raised his head slightly, looking at him with full resentment.

Two silvery-white pupils were emitting thick black smoke from between his fingers, and there was fire flashing in between, exactly the same as the two mirrors in mid-air.

The light beam shining down from the mirror on the left was shrouding him.

That light beam seemed to carry a strange high temperature, shining on his whole body until it began to crack. His face, hands, neck, all the skin exposed outside, had already appeared with countless cracks.

Seeing those cracks, Xia Hong immediately understood.

The mirror on the left was the thing that emitted evil light.

His left arm had been hit by it once before.

"Hehehehehehe, you're late, you're late, you're late, hahahahaha, you're late!"

He Yuanhun, as if suddenly possessed, laughed wildly.

He directly let go of both hands. The originally silvery-white pupils actually returned to their normal state, the cracks all over his body quickly began to recover, and the wild posture combined with the evil-to-the-extreme cruel smile on his face made people shudder.

Xia Hong's eyes condensed slightly. It was very difficult to connect the person before his eyes with Gao Yu, the gentle-as-jade, kind, and polite person who had visited Does Does Da Xia last month.

"That black oily substance of yours, and that furnace, only have a suppressive effect on me, they can't kill me. The qualification of a Super-Grade Battle Body, six-mane strength, I indeed underestimated you, but now you can't fight me, you can't fight me anymore, hahahahaha......"

Xia Hong let He Yuanhun laugh wildly, just looking at him coldly.

"You and He Yuanhun are one body, but you are two people, right?"

He Yuanhun, or rather the Mirror Immortal, his expression condensed. Seeing that there was not a hint of fear on Xia Hong's face, he suddenly had the feeling of a heavy punch hitting cotton.

His wildness and pride, in front of Xia Hong, seemed to have become a joke.

This posture gave him a very familiar feeling.

"Why are you not afraid, why are you not afraid, go to hell!"

As if touched on a sensitive nerve point, the Mirror Immortal suddenly roared, his legs kicked violently on the ground, and the entire bamboo building shook instantly.

Countless snow-white bamboo leaves suddenly fell off the wall.

Those fallen bamboo leaves stagnated in the air for a moment.

The next second, the Mirror Immortal's body rushed toward Xia Hong violently.

His speed was extremely fast, and the strong airflow formed by the sprint made all the bamboo leaves that had just stagnated move instantly.

In the process of sprinting, the Mirror Immortal's left pupil flashed violently. Every time he looked at a bamboo leaf, that bamboo leaf would suddenly turn into a stream of light, shooting toward Xia Hong suddenly.

Shoo...... shoo...... shoo......

In an instant, the whole room was filled with streams of light, all of which were white airflows caused by the flying bamboo leaves.

Xia Hong's ceremonial sword flew quickly in his hand. While slashing down the bamboo leaves, his body also constantly swayed left and right to dodge. But even so, some parts were still grazed by the bamboo leaves, leaving behind small and sharp wounds.

"This bamboo leaf......"

Xia Hong, who was dodging frantically, took advantage of the gap to look down at the back of his hand. Seeing the opening broken by the bamboo leaf, a look of horror flashed in his pupils instantly.

After the Skin-Membrane remodeling was completed, what he improved was not just basic strength.

How hard his own skin-membrane was, Xia Hong knew very well.

He knew that the evil light shot from the Mirror Immortal's left eye could break his left arm.

The bamboo leaves he controlled actually had such terrifying power!

Bang......

While dodging the bamboo leaves, the Mirror Immortal had already rushed to his front.

In his hand, there was already an extra long sword as black as ink.

That long sword didn't even make a sound when it left its sheath. When it stabbed toward Xia Hong's heart, it was also silent, only making a rustling sound of bamboo leaves passing through the forest the moment it touched his skin.

Along with the rustling sound, what Xia Hong perceived was the invincible impact and penetrating power on the sword tip.

"Seven manes, approaching eight manes, no wonder he said I couldn't fight him!"

The moment he touched the long sword, Xia Hong felt the Mirror Immortal's strength.

Over seventy-five thousand jin, approaching eighty thousand.

With such terrifying power, in just this short while, he had not only recovered from all his injuries but had even become several times stronger than before.

Is this the benefit brought by those nine thousand-plus people committing suicide!

Strange monsters improve their strength by killing people.

The more people they kill, the stronger their strength.

Remembering the description of strange monsters again, Xia Hong's heart condensed violently, and his wariness of this type of creature climbed to the extreme again.

"Hehehehe, die, die, once you die, I can also swallow this furnace. Those one thousand-plus people in your valley encampment will all become my nourishment, hehehehe......"

The Mirror Immortal let out a wild laugh again, just because he already felt that his long sword had already pierced into Xia Hong's chest.

As long as he took one more step forward, he could pierce Xia Hong's heart.

"Don't be happy too early!"

Xia Hong's calm tone made the Mirror Immortal's expression gradually become manic.

He finally knew why he hated this feeling so much.

Because Xia Hong's posture was exactly the same as He Yuanhun's.

Both were the kind of confidence and calmness that could play with him in the palm of their hands.

As if everything was under their control.

"What are you, what are you, you are also worthy, stiff-lipped when death is at hand, die for me, die for me, die for me......"

The Mirror Immortal's hysterical, shrill roar, he had ignored the pupils rolling with black smoke, just desperately rushing toward Xia Hong, his hands almost erupting with all his strength.

Just to kill this person in front of him.

Whoosh......

However, the next second, Xia Hong turned sideways, making his wishful thinking fall completely through.

This speed......

The Mirror Immortal's pupils shrank suddenly. Before the astonishment on his face ended, a giant force was transmitted from the ceremonial sword in Xia Hong's hand to his sword.

Xia Hong only avoided the fatal heart area by turning sideways.

The Mirror Immortal's long sword still passed under his armpit.

Blood gushed out from the wound behind, and Xia Hong's expression remained calm.

His ceremonial sword directly pushed aside the Mirror Immortal's long sword. Ignoring the piece of flesh he had brought away, he held the ceremonial sword with both hands, and from bottom to top, violently lifted it upward.

Shoo......

The sword speed was too fast, just like those bamboo leaves flying at high speed just now, the sound emitted was extremely shrill and harsh.

Clang......

The long sword in the Jingxian's hand was actually sent flying with a single flick.

The terrifying strength not only made the long sword in the Mirror Immortal's hand collapse and fly, but his body also seemed like a cannonball out of the chamber, directly flying backward for more than twenty meters, and with a bang, crashed through the wall of the bamboo building.

Flying out for five or six meters, he was still in a state of stagnation in mid-air.

What was stagnant was not just the body.

There was also his gaze.

The Mirror Immortal's face was full of disbelief, staring fixedly at Xia Hong inside the bamboo building:

"Your strength, how is it possible......"

A shrill sword light broke through the air from inside the bamboo building.

Xia Hong's slightly mocking voice also followed.

"Who told you that after I broke through, I only had six-mane strength?"

Deceived!

He had been deceived......

In the Mirror Immortal's pupils, only horror and terror remained instantly.

The sword light flew over, and he even forgot to dodge.

Puchi......

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